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Re:Java.sun.com is down - breaking builds across the land by drewvolpe on Monday October 10, 2011 @11:54AM (#3094302)
It's easy to say that, but that's not the default in Java and it takes a decent amount of work to completely decouple yourself. For example: it uses XML all over the place to setup and configure things and, by default, will validate these XML files against a schema at a URL. If that URL starts redirecting to a splash page (as http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd currently does), it breaks the build.
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Re:Java.sun.com is down - breaking builds across the land by justincormack on Monday October 10, 2011 @02:07PM (#3095008)
Validating parsers should not be downloading these, they should have local copies. And you should probably not validate against a dtd anyway.

No build should need network access.

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Re:Java.sun.com is down - breaking builds across the land by oconnor0 on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:10PM (#3095868)
Apparently you've never met Maven.
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Re:Java.sun.com is down - breaking builds across the land by shaggyfrog on Monday October 10, 2011 @08:15PM (#3096488)
I believe the expression is "Maven downloads the Internet".
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Re:Java.sun.com is down - breaking builds across the land by serverascode on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @06:16PM (#3100606)
I'm going to use that one! ha!
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Re:Java.sun.com is down - breaking builds across the land by Bootvis on Monday October 10, 2011 @12:50PM (#3094584)
It seems to be fixed now.
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